Cheraw, Eads football looking for first win

CHERAW — The Cheraw High School football team will look to get its first win of the season on Friday when it hosts Eads, a team also looking for its first win.

"They’ve played two really good teams to start off with," said Cheraw coach Brad Phillips. "They’re still a very good program and they’ve been in the playoffs every year. They have the same coaching staff. So they’re going to get better week by week, hopefully the same as us. They’ve got some younger kids playing but I’m sure they’re going to come in here looking for their first W as well as us, and it ought to be a tough test."

Phillips and his staff received the most recent game film on Eads on Wednesday, therefore, no scouting report was available.

"I haven’t watched film yet," Phillips said. "We just got it a little bit ago, so I haven’t watched it or heard anything. We’re going to have to go to work tonight and see what we can do. But I really have no scouting report as of yet."

Last week, the Wolverines played at No. 4 Kit Carson and the Wildcats showed why they are a Top 5 team as they took a 59-0 win.

"They had a couple of punt return touchdowns and a kick return touchdown and we just couldn’t match their speed," Phillips said. "It’s going to be something we’re going to have to deal with every week. But the kids played hard and we got better as the game went on. We were moving the ball a lot better in the fourth quarter. We also had a touchdown called back. It’s some of those little things we can expect with young guys who haven’t had a whole lot of experience. Kit Carson is a very good team and they have a ton of speed again. But I was proud of our work and their continual improvement."

The Eagles’ two losses were to Otis (54-14) and to Genoa-Hugo (64-21).

Phillips reports that the Wolverines are healthy this week.

"Everybody is as healthy as normal," Phillips said. "We have all seven and we’re going to give it another go."

Kickoff at Wolverines Field is at 7 p.m.

Next week

Cheraw will be on the road to Sierra Grande next Friday. Kickoff in Blanca is at 3 p.m. Eads will play Branson/Kim in Branson next Saturday at 2 p.m.